[NEohioPAL] Sober St. Patrick's Day means top Irish entertainment

[Jack Kilroy via NEohioPAL]

Sober St. Patrick's Day means top Irish entertainment
*5pm til 8pm, Tuesday, March 17, 2015*
Ahern's Banquet Center
726 Avon Belden Road, Avon Lake
Tickets: only $15 per person - $10 Seniors & Students, Free for kids 10 &
under. Includes hot hors d'oeuvres, coffee, tea,& soft drinks. Ample free
parking.  Supervised kids activity area.

*Tickets available only at **www.soberstpatricksday.org
<http://www.soberstpatricksday.org> *


*Entertainment includes these top artists:*


*Mary Agnes Kennedy*, singer and guitarist, is one of the most popular
performers of Irish ballads and folk music in the Greater Cleveland area.
The red-haired Mary with the black acoustic guitar is frequently heard at
the Irish American Club East Side as well as the West Side Irish American
Club.  Mary Agnes emerged as a rising star on the Cleveland Irish scene as
the featured singer with Alec and Darby’s Folk at Darby O’Toole’s over 25
years ago.  Mary Agnes left the band for a flirtation with Nashville but
fortunately for Cleveland audiences, she returned several years ago with
her strong expressive voice and solo performances.



*Patrick Kilroy*, bagpipes, has performed with The Kilroys, since the
versatile family band began appearing on Cleveland stages in the early
1990s at venues including the fabled Rory’s Public House.  The Kilroys are
well known to Cleveland audiences for their ceili shows but have also been
known to entertain with rebel tunes, Irish rock, and traditional tunes.
Patrick is a versatile instrumentalist, who has performed on guitar and
fiddle, as well as the bagpipes.



*Clash of the Tartans* is a Cleveland based all-women folk band
specializing in adding a classical twist to traditional favorites.  Three
of the five members are former members of Ceud Mile Failte, a folk band
that plays original compositions. Leader and flutist, Julie Williams, is an
active performer and teacher in the area, in both classical and folk music
of German, American, and Celtic regions.  Other members include: Alyssa
Schreiber, fiddle; Liz Crowe, cello and banjo; Georgeann Tropiano, guitar &
vocals; and Erica Tompkins, fiddle & bodhran.





*Fior Gael* offers the finest example of traditional Irish music as you
will find in Ohio.  The trio of Brian Bigley, Brian Holleran, and Ruari
Hurley are as accomplished as they are authentic. Multi-instrumentalist
Brian Bigley grew up in a musical family in Cleveland.  Although he also
plays whistle and flute, he is best known as a uilleann piper, an
instrument he took up when he was eight under Michael Kilbane’s tutelage.
He is also a uilleann pipe and reed maker and a champion step dancer.
Brian Holleran grew up in New Jersey, a student of the East Galway flute
legend Mike Rafferty.  He earned wide respect on the session scene in New
York, and was a featured performer on the seminal 2004 album “Live at
Mona’s.”  Both were members of Cleveland’s “Burning River Ceili Band. Dublin
native Ruairi Hurley is a staple of his adopted city’s Irish music scene
and has appeared regularly with several different lineups, among them the
famed Pitch the Peat and Fior Gael, more than a few sit-ins with The
Portersharks and any number of pub sessions with some of Northeast Ohio’s
most talented musicians. Tough to say where he’s more superb, his guitar or
vocals.





*The Burke School of Irish Dance* has a long tradition of excellence.
Founded in 1958 by Theresa Burke, the school now operates in three
locations; Cleveland, Youngstown, and Pittsburgh.  The school founder,
Theresa Burke, is one of the most prominent Irish dancing teachers in the
United States.  In 1965 she became the first North American woman to be
certified by the international body governing traditional Irish step
dancing. Theresa was recently honored in the Irish Dance Hall of Fame and
celebrated fifty years of success teaching Irish dance.  Theresa's dancers
have continuously won top prizes at the regional, national, and world level
competitions.

 *The Cleveland Ceili Club* promotes the traditional social dances of
Ireland. The Club holds classes weekly and welcome adults who wish to
dance! The Cleveland Ceili Club was established in 1993 by a group of eight
people and a dance teacher who decided to learn Irish Set Dancing. Since
that time, the group has grown and has regular participants from the
Northern Ohio area from Toledo to Wooster to Painesville. The Ceili Club
welcomes anyone who enjoys Irish country dancing or wants to learn.  The
Club says that as long as you can count, you’ll be able to do it!

Supported by LCADA; Leimkiehler Orthotic; and  Cuyahoga County ADAMHS Board

*Friends of Bill McW will convene for a closed AA meeting on site at 4pm.*
*-- *
Jack Kilroy
Tel. 440-759-1253

* People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing
it.*
  (George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer)

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